forefathers had their fowling pieces, taken from the walls in the
days when the cannon fired a solid shot for a few hundred yards, and
there were few cannon; and so far as weapons were concerned, they
were almost on a level with their enemy, the enemy's only
superiority being that of their drill and organization. Now the
enemy would have guns and rifles which it takes many months to make,
even if you have the plants.

In an era of sanitation and bodily cleanliness and popular education,
it has been shown that far from men having lost their virility, they
fought far better than the so-called "strong" and primitive man, and
those soldiers of former ages who "drank hard six days a week and
fought like the devil on Sunday" and would look down upon this age as
effeminate. Physically, mentally, and morally, the soldiers who sprang
to arms in the beginning of this war were superior unquestionably to
any soldiers who have ever gone into any war in Europe. They had more
skill, more courage, more determination. Their pride was greater, and
that alone made them more gallant. Those who wanted to know what war
was like, to have the experience of their first baptism of fire, soon
had it in the swift processes of mobilization and attack. Then, in
their stubbornness, they settled down to the long, grim business of
seeing through a task that was begun. The trenches were the last
places where you would hear the advocacy of war as war. There the
sentiment was simply of duty that must go on until a decision was
reached.

Never has war been more savagely fought, possibly because the modern
mind reasons that war being force and violence and killing, this
principle should be applied to the limit. Yet never have the wounded
been so tenderly cared for, never has the hospital organization been
so complete. Never probably in the history of European warfare have
prisoners, once they were taken, been so well treated. In other wars
100,000 survivors or so returned home when the struggle was over.
Here millions will go. Every home will either have its dead hero or
its living veteran. These are the men who will rule Europe in the
future. Behind the lines, among the civilian population, the war has
acted as a scourge. It has submerged self into the whole. Fatty
degeneration of the heart of the body politic has been cut away to
the muscle.

THE THEATRES OF THE WAR'S CAMPAIGNS

By F. H. SIMONDS

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